cavitary

English

Etymology

From Latin cavitas (“cavity”) +‎ -ary.

Adjective

cavitary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 151:
      With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology – swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.

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Translations
of or pertaining to a body cavity
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